Hello, Did you check errata 003 ? http://openbsd.org/errata42.html
regards On 11/01/2008, T. Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I just tried installing OpenBSD 4.2 on an older PIII box I got a while > back - but I can't get the install to boot from CD. Here's what I have > so far: > > - The PC has an Intel server board, L440GX+, with two PIII/550 (Slot 1) > on it. This board has both IDE and SCSI (Dual channel U2W, Adaptec > AIC-7896) on-board. > - The CD-ROM is SCSI and connected to channel B of the U2W controller. > - There are two IDE disks - a 20GB connected to IDE1 (master) and a 160GB > on > IDE2 (master). > - The SCSI controller is set to support bootable CDs and the OpenBSD CD > is recognised as such. > > If I try to boot from CD, the only lines I get are: > > CR-ROM: 9F > Loading /4.2/I386/CDBOOT > probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[635K 638M a20=on] > disk: > > At this point, the machine hangs hard, i.e. neither keyboard, nor > reset/power buttons work anymore. I litterally have to pull the plug. > > If I disable *both* IDE drives in the BIOS, booting from CD-ROM works > (or at least I get to the 'boot>' prompt, haven't tested further yet). > Disabling only one of them doesn't help, though. > > As a test, I also tried to boot from an OpenBSD 3.9 CD, but that showed > the same symptoms. Same goes for a Kubuntu 7.04 live CD - got stuck > right after the boot menu. > > The odd thing is: I *have* installed OpenBSD on this PC in the past > (must have been 4.0 or 4.1). The changes I have made since then were - > as far as I can remember: > - I removed a second 20GB IDE drive that was slave on IDE1. > - I added the 160GB drive on IDE2 > - I think I removed a PCI VGA card and a sound card, but I'm not 100% > whether they were actually in there when I installed OpenBSD the last > time. > - I added a 3C509B(?) NIC. > > Any insight on this would be most welcome. I saw one related thread in > the archives, but that seemed to deal with PCI cards rather than > on-board devices. One of the solutions offered there was to remove the > boot-eeprom from one of those cards - but I don't thinks I have that > option in this case... :-} > > Regards, > > Thomas > -- > ****** PLEASE: NO Cc's to me privately, I do read the list - thanks! > ****** > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org ICQ#: 15839919 > "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come > true!"
